Genesis 27:12
My father may touch me! Then he’ll think I’m mocking him and I’ll bring a curse on myself instead of a blessing.”
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- Deut 27:18 : 18 ‘Cursed is the one who misleads a blind person on the road.’ Then all the people will say,‘Amen!’
- Job 12:16 : 16 With him are strength and prudence; both the one who goes astray and the one who misleads are his.
- Jer 48:10 : 10 A curse on anyone who is lax in doing the LORD’s work! A curse on anyone who keeps from carrying out his destruction!
- Mal 1:14 : 14 “There will be harsh condemnation for the hypocrite who has a valuable male animal in his flock but vows and sacrifices something inferior to the Lord. For I am a great king,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“and my name is awesome among the nations.”
- 2 Cor 6:8 : 8 through glory and dishonor, through slander and praise; regarded as impostors, and yet true;
- 1 Thess 5:22 : 22 Stay away from every form of evil.
- Gen 9:25 : 25 So he said,“Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves he will be to his brothers.”
- Gen 25:27 : 27 When the boys grew up, Esau became a skilled hunter, a man of the open fields, but Jacob was an even-tempered man, living in tents.
- Gen 27:21-22 : 21 Then Isaac said to Jacob,“Come closer so I can touch you, my son, and know for certain if you really are my son Esau.” 22 So Jacob went over to his father Isaac, who felt him and said,“The voice is Jacob’s, but the hands are Esau’s.”
- Gen 27:36 : 36 Esau exclaimed,“‘Jacob is the right name for him! He has tripped me up two times! He took away my birthright, and now, look, he has taken away my blessing!” Then he asked,“Have you not kept back a blessing for me?”
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- Gen 27:10-112 verses81%
10 Then you will take it to your father. Thus he will eat it and bless you before he dies.”
11 “But Esau my brother is a hairy man,” Jacob protested to his mother Rebekah,“and I have smooth skin!
- Gen 27:13-164 verses80%
13 So his mother told him,“Any curse against you will fall on me, my son! Just obey me! Go and get them for me!”
14 So he went and got the goats and brought them to his mother. She prepared some tasty food, just the way his father loved it.
15 Then Rebekah took her older son Esau’s best clothes, which she had with her in the house, and put them on her younger son Jacob.
16 She put the skins of the young goats on his hands and the smooth part of his neck.
- Gen 27:29-368 verses78%
29 May peoples serve you and nations bow down to you. You will be lord over your brothers, and the sons of your mother will bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed, and those who bless you be blessed.”
30 Isaac had just finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had scarcely left his father’s presence, when his brother Esau returned from the hunt.
31 He also prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. Esau said to him,“My father, get up and eat some of your son’s wild game. Then you can bless me.”
32 His father Isaac asked,“Who are you?”“I am your firstborn son,” he replied,“Esau!”
33 Isaac began to shake violently and asked,“Then who else hunted game and brought it to me? I ate all of it just before you arrived, and I blessed him. He will indeed be blessed!”
34 When Esau heard his father’s words, he wailed loudly and bitterly. He said to his father,“Bless me too, my father!”
35 But Isaac replied,“Your brother came in here deceitfully and took away your blessing.”
36 Esau exclaimed,“‘Jacob is the right name for him! He has tripped me up two times! He took away my birthright, and now, look, he has taken away my blessing!” Then he asked,“Have you not kept back a blessing for me?”
- Gen 27:5-73 verses78%
5 Now Rebekah had been listening while Isaac spoke to his son Esau. When Esau went out to the open fields to hunt down some wild game and bring it back,
6 Rebekah said to her son Jacob,“Look, I overheard your father tell your brother Esau,
7 ‘Bring me some wild game and prepare for me some tasty food. Then I will eat it and bless you in the presence of the LORD before I die.’
- Gen 27:21-277 verses78%
21 Then Isaac said to Jacob,“Come closer so I can touch you, my son, and know for certain if you really are my son Esau.”
22 So Jacob went over to his father Isaac, who felt him and said,“The voice is Jacob’s, but the hands are Esau’s.”
23 He did not recognize him because his hands were hairy, like his brother Esau’s hands. So Isaac blessed Jacob.
24 Then he asked,“Are you really my son Esau?”“I am,” Jacob replied.
25 Isaac said,“Bring some of the wild game for me to eat, my son. Then I will bless you.” So Jacob brought it to him, and he ate it. He also brought him wine, and Isaac drank.
26 Then his father Isaac said to him,“Come here and kiss me, my son.”
27 So Jacob went over and kissed him. When Isaac caught the scent of his clothing, he blessed him, saying,“Yes, my son smells like the scent of an open field which the LORD has blessed.
- Gen 27:41-422 verses77%
41 So Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing his father had given to his brother. Esau said privately,“The time of mourning for my father is near; then I will kill my brother Jacob!”
42 When Rebekah heard what her older son Esau had said, she quickly summoned her younger son Jacob and told him,“Look, your brother Esau is planning to get revenge by killing you.
- Gen 27:18-192 verses76%
18 He went to his father and said,“My father!” Isaac replied,“Here I am. Which are you, my son?”
19 Jacob said to his father,“I am Esau, your firstborn. I’ve done as you told me. Now sit up and eat some of my wild game so that you can bless me.”
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34 For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I couldn’t bear to see my father’s pain.”
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38 Esau said to his father,“Do you have only that one blessing, my father? Bless me too!” Then Esau wept loudly.
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11 Rescue me, I pray, from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid he will come and attack me, as well as the mothers with their children.
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29 If you take this one from me too and an accident happens to him, then you will bring down my gray hair in tragedy to the grave.’
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29 I have the power to do you harm, but the God of your father told me last night,‘Be careful that you neither bless nor curse Jacob.’
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20 You must also say,‘In fact your servant Jacob is behind us.’” Jacob thought,“I will first appease him by sending a gift ahead of me. After that I will meet him. Perhaps he will accept me.”
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5 There he said to them,“I can tell that your father’s attitude toward me has changed, but the God of my father has been with me.
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45 Stay there until your brother’s anger against you subsides and he forgets what you did to him. Then I’ll send someone to bring you back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?”
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1 Jacob Cheats Esau out of the Blessing When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he was almost blind, he called his older son Esau and said to him,“My son!”“Here I am!” Esau replied.
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32 Indeed, your servant pledged security for the boy with my father, saying,‘If I do not bring him back to you, then I will bear the blame before my father all my life.’